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ROUT OUT

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cause to flee

Example:

rout out the fighters from their caves

Synonyms:

expel; rout; rout out

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Hypernyms (to "rout out" is one way to...):

defeat; get the better of; overcome (win a victory over)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Force or drive out

Example:

The police routed them out of bed at 2 A.M.

Synonyms:

drive out; force out; rouse; rout out

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "rout out" is one way to...):

displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)

Verb group:

chase away; dispel; drive away; drive off; drive out; run off; turn back (force to go away; used both with concrete and metaphoric meanings)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "rout out"):

hunt (chase away, with as with force)

smoke out (drive out with smoke)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 3

Meaning:

Get or find by searching

Example:

What did you rout out in the library?

Synonyms:

rout out; rout up

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

Hypernyms (to "rout out" is one way to...):

find; regain (come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost)

"Rout out" entails doing...:

look; search (search or seek)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

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